Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Another week down in 2023 and we’re seeing crazier action in the housing market as purchase application data fell, mortgage rates rose again, and weekly inventory took another dive with a noticeable move lower in new listing data. Mortgage rates hit 6.80%, marking the high point for 2023 so far.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The housing market madness persisted last week as inventory fell and higher mortgage rates took a bigger bite out of purchase application data. Weekly housing inventory decreased by 6,801, while new listing data is still negative year-over-year. However, we are noticeably down from the 2019 levels.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 13, 2024

As you can see, we are still a bit away from my ultimate goal of having total active listings back to 2019 levels. However, this data line accelerates when mortgage rates rise and demand gets hit harder. We can grow new listings from these depressed levels and get more demand. 2022 21.7%

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Mortgage rates have more than doubled from the beginning of the year and homebuyers facing affordability challenges are increasingly turning to adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) to reduce their monthly payments. The Freddie Mac’s index compiles purchase mortgage rates reported by lenders during the past three days.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2023

The housing bubble boys are a crew that from 2012 to 2019 screamed housing crash every year. In 2022 it was all about finding a point in time when I thought mortgage rates would fall, which was key to understanding how the purchase application data would react to lower mortgage rates. That could send mortgage rates under 6%.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2022

To say that mortgage rates have been on a wild Mr. Toad’s ride in 2022 is an understatement. People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% People thought the mortgage rate drama in 2013-2014 was a lot when rates went from 3.5% We saw this in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. million to 5.12

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

million, something that couldn’t happen from 2008-2019 because we didn’t have the demographic profile to get to that level until household formation grew. In the summer of 2020, I talked about how the housing market would change, but it needed the 10-year yield to break over 1.94%, which roughly means 4% plus mortgage rates.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mortgage rates fell, but the bond market didn’t break what I see as a critical level, so for now, stabilization is more important. Last week’s housing market data provided mixed news. Mortgage rates ended the week at 6.15%, but the 10-year yield didn’t break the critical level I was looking for and reversed higher on Friday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

New Orleans, San Antonio, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville are among the locales that posted the slowest month-over-month price growth in March. There are places where new construction relieved some pressure, and where homeowners are less locked into their mortgage, but not in the nation’s most expensive metros.

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Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2021

Nearly 50% of homes sold for more than their list price during the four weeks ending May 16, but there are signs that housing market demand may be reaching its peak, according to a recent study from Redfin. Mortgage purchase applications also decreased 4% week over week. Asking prices increased to $358,975, also a record high.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

The housing market faced some serious obstacles last week as the 10-year yield broke over 4%, mortgage rates rose to over 7%, purchase apps fell again and we are still trying to find the elusive seasonal bottom for housing inventory. My 2023 inventory forecast needs a lot of help, as new listing data isn’t growing at all still.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I didn’t have to worry about this in the previous expansion — as my long-term work stated for a decade, the years 2008-2019, would have the weakest housing recovery ever. This article , which I wrote in 2019, does show you the historical work in the past decade on the housing bubble talk. NAR lists the current inventory at 1.22

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With mortgage rates briefly topping 8% and home prices breaking records throughout the year, many would-be sellers simply decided not to bother listing their homes, exacerbating already tight inventories. New data from the U.S. Mortgage rates followed suit, walloping buyers’ purchasing power.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Even though this was a beat of estimates, the sales decline trend due to higher mortgage rates and home prices continues. The savagely unhealthy housing market theme of mine is running in full force now as we have gotten no relief on home prices and now have a mega jump in mortgage rates. . I am a big fan of inventory to 2019 levels.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“The principal factor was the rapid increase in mortgage rates, which hurt housing affordability and reduced incentives for homeowners to list their homes. Mortgage rates spiked in March, and then the new listing data started to decline at the end of June. This is the biggest story in housing. .

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Pending sales for the seven-day period ending May 16 were down 10% from four weeks prior, compared to an 8% increase during the same period in 2019. Mortgage purchase applications also decreased 4% week over week. 2019 is being used as a reference point since 2020 data is skewed by the pandemic.).

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2023

Declining mortgage rates could have improved affordability for buyers in the housing market in February, but instead spurred a demand that, combined with a persistent lack of inventory across the U.S., In February, the number of homes available for sale fell for the fifth consecutive month, and new listings ran 27% below pre-pandemic levels.

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Housing Wire

MAY 4, 2023

On the one hand, elevated mortgage rates continue to erode buyers’ purchasing power, and in some markets, home prices are falling. The number of new listings coming on the market this spring is lower than it has been in more than a decade. Mortgage rate fatigue. Selective sellers.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

have dramatically risen, reaching a record high in early 2019. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020. The Housing Market Is Going Strong… for Now The year 2019 started with a bang, and this wasn’t even news.

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Boston Appraisal

JULY 22, 2019

have dramatically risen, reaching a record high in early 2019. With this apprehension in mind, we’ll discuss some of the things to expect from the housing market in the second half of 2019, going into 2020. The year 2019 started with a bang, and this wasn’t even news. Index Points in April of 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2023

So, is this the traditional seasonal decline we see during every December/January, or have falling mortgage rates (since mid November) contributed to this? Before these two weeks, purchase applications had seven weeks of positive data, tracking with the drop in mortgage rates from 7.37% in November to 6.12%. Historically, the U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2021

“We are seeing a typical late-spring slowdown in new listings and pending sales, but prices don’t typically peak until late August, and their growth remains completely unhinged,” said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist. For the week ending May 27, 30-year mortgage rates fell slightly to 2.95%.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2023

Home prices fell in January, pulling back by 0.24% from December to mark the smallest monthly decline in seven months, according to Black Knight ‘s mortgage monitor report. 25, purchase lock counts were 21% below the same week in 2019, and 30% below the levels during the same week in 2018. As of the week ending Feb.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Home prices growth and mortgage rates have come down from the peaks in 2022, but affordability still remains a challenge. Purchase borrowers, who now make up 82% of new rate locks, paid an average of 1.16 As sales volumes continued to slump, inventory growth stalled, as sellers are taking a step back from listing their homes.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2023

The 10-year yield can’t break lower from the critical level I have discussed, so not much is happening with mortgage rates. Does this move have more legs to run, and will we need lower mortgage rates to get more growth in this data line? 10-year yield and mortgage rates There wasn’t much action in mortgage rates last week.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2020

in July, the third consecutive month of gains, fueled by low mortgage rates and unprecedented demand from consumers. Home sellers are seeing their homes go under contract in record time, with nine new contracts for every 10 new listings.”. gain compared with 2019. pending home sales rose 5.9% million, a 1.1%

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2022

NAR Total Listing Data: If we cut the timeline to the last time inventory grew, which was 2014, you can see this downtrend in inventory, unlike 2001-2005, when inventory grew from 2 million to 2.5 crash, especially from 2012-2019. I don’t need to see total active listing get back to the historical range of 2-2.5 From Redfin.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mortgage rates fell along with bond yields, showing that mortgage rates peaked on Oct. The weekly data shows some good news for the housing market ! With mortgage rates also falling, I am hopeful that more people will list their homes and buy another, so we can get back to a more functional housing market.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

According to multiple real estate agents and mortgage brokers, low interest rates and a high percentage of “essential” jobs in their town has kept the housing market and local economy strong. That’s even with home prices jumping to an average of $226,000 in September – an 18% jump from September 2019.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 9, 2023

The housing market welcomed the news of lower mortgage rates last week after four reports showed that the labor market isn’t as tight as it seems and that the fear of 1970s-entrenched inflation was a lousy narrative. Active inventory rose by 823 single-family homes and new listing data is trending at all-time lows.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Mortgage rates? The year 2019 taught us that any natural or economic force can wildly shift expectations into the stratosphere. Studying listing information for the current year and comparing with past years?—?list?prices,?new new listings, sold listings, days on market, off-market listings?—?will

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Berkshire Hathaway

DECEMBER 9, 2021

According to Housing Wire, “During the four week period ending November 28, the number of active listings was a 23% decrease compared to the same time period in 2020 and a 42% drop compared to 2019. This marks a 14% year-over-year increase and a 31% increase from 2019.

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Lamacchia Realty

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It also looks at other metrics like New Listings and New Pending Sales as they are often the best indicators for predicting future trends in the market. 2019 will be examined in some areas to highlight the lingering impact of COVID in real estate. Miami-Dade & Palm Beach Counties. What's Ahead?

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mortgage rates are back over 7%. The economy has continued to be strong, so mortgage rates have defied expectations and remained very high. New listings rise New listings continue to show us that more sellers are interested in this market this year. Inventory is back at 2019 levels in many of these markets.

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Empire Appraisal Group

JANUARY 4, 2023

NEW YORK – The U.S. Demand has plummeted as mortgage rates hit a two-decade high, but prices haven’t declined much in part because supply remains correspondingly low. The metric had already been declining consistently for a decade through 2019, but the pandemic brought it to unthinkable lows. It would take just 3.3

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 2022 housing market was savagely unhealthy , with all-time lows in inventory leading to massive bidding wars and price spikes until the Fed put a screeching halt to all of it with rate hikes that resulted in the most significant one-year spike in mortgage rate history. Mortgage rates. So where does all that drama leave us for 2023?

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Will Springer Realtor

AUGUST 15, 2023

Ah, for the good old days of 2019 – when we could stomach home prices closer to the mid-million-dollar mark and housing options were somewhat plentiful amid a mildly competitive buyer environment. Mortgage rates are high, home prices are high, there’s no inventory.” monthly decline in available Seattle listings (793).

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